Thursday, October 25, 2012

Terrain Workshop: Space Battle Table

Posted by
Man Boy Genius
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Recently
I needed a space themed demo table for the Firestorm Armada game (PS-
its really fun you should try it). At first I was a little perplexed on
what to do to make it. There was the traditional toothbrush paint
flick method, but the problem with that is it's messy. I have to mop
the floors at FTW Games enough already, so making a mess is not really
an option for me.

So I manage to come up with a bit of a compromise
that I think works pretty good. I took a 1/2 inch painters brush (the
kind you use to paint wall trim) and poured out some white paint. I
tried just lightly flinging the paint onto the board from the brush, but
it didn't really come off the brush so well. Then I watered the paint
down some, to about the consistency of Milk, and that worked great. So I
flinged on a bunch of white, and then let it dry.

After
it dried I took a look at it and wasn't one hundred percent happy with
it. So I mixed up some other colors and went at it. I ended up adding
some purple, yellow, orange, but didn't use much of each, just enough to
compliment the white.

Below it the finished board. I think it took longer to basecoat it black, then it took to paint on the stars.

About Me

Trying compile all intersting terrain building and random interesting mods in one place for my ease of use and others. So very little of this are my original ideas, though I copied and pasted it all so the hyperlinks etc should take you there for more info.. etc...